CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- SAR 2000
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Full Name
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Synthetic Aperture Radar - 2000
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Status
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Operational
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Instrument Agencies
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ASI , MoD (Italy)
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Maturity
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Instrument Type
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Imaging microwave radars 
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Geometry
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Side-looking
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Instrument Technology
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Imaging radar (SAR)
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Sampling
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Imaging
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Data Access
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Constrained Access
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Data Format
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Measurements and Applications
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All-weather images of ocean, land and ice for monitoring of land surface processes, ice, environmental monitoring, risk management, environmental resources, maritime management, Earth topographic mapping.
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Resolution Summary
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Single polarisation modes; Spotlight: 1 m. Stripmap: 3 - 15 m, ScanSAR: 30 or 100 m. Two polarisation mode (PING-PONG): 15 m.
[Best Resolution: 1m]
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Swath Summary
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Single polarisation modes: Spotlight: 10 km. Stripmap; 40 km. ScanSAR: 100 or 200 km - Two polarisation mode (PING-PONG): 30 km.
[Max Swath: 200 km]
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Accuracy Summary
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Waveband Summary
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Microwave: X-band, 9.6 GHz, with choice of 5 polarisation modes (VV, HH, HV, VH, HH/HV + VV/VH)
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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